The first assignment was to choose a city, look up the weather in that city, and then create one poster using only typography, one that included a pattern, one poster featuring an image, and one poster in the Swiss style. I chose Porto, Portugal because it was one of my favorite cities that I visited during my semester abroad.

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For the first part of our second project, we chose a designer, conducted research on their style and the influence they had and then turned one of our sources into a magazine spread. For this assignment I chose April Greiman as I have always admired her work.

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The second part of the second project included creating a presentation to teach the rest of our class about our chosen artist. Featured above are 3 slides out of a 9 slide presentation.

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The next project required us to pick a phobia out of a hat and illustrate in the form of a book cover. The black shape on the cover was originally illustrated to look like a person; the top is the side of the neck, which then continues down into a shoulder and then trails off the page. The negative space of this composition then ended up looking like an elongated neck with the chin tilted up, almost as if it were looking above the person illustrated with the black shape. I used these two colors in particular to make a commentary on race and how it ties into xenophobia.

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The final project for this class was an advocacy poster created to bring light to the femicides that have been occurring in Mexico. Essentially, in Mexico, women are being killed for no other reason than because they are female. The challenge with this assignment was to create a poster bringing light to the cause without using graphics that were too violent. "Ni una menos" translates to "not one more" and is the chant that protesters and marchers would shout. There is also another saying in Spanish that translates to "Don't ever touch a woman, not even with a rose petal". This phrase emphasizes the respect that a woman should be given and how a woman should be treated as delicately as a rose. "Ni con el petalo de una rosa" is the second half of the aforementioned phrase that is recognizable to a Spanish audience.